Juliette de Marcellus, pianist, writer, teacher and lecturer, is a prize-winning music critic who served as feature writer and arts critic for the Cox Newspapers in Florida over a period of twenty years. She is also the author of a number of colourful travel articles for which she took the photographs as well as writing the texts. She has also been a contributor to Opera News, with reviews of Florida performances published by the magazine. She has written music and travel articles for the magazine ARTS, produced by the Palm Beach County Council of the Arts, and other magazines.

Currently Ms. de Marcellus lectures twice weekly at the prestigious Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach Florida on two subjects: How to Listen to Classical Music and The Legacy of French Culture. She has also given courses in English and American literature for the Society of the Four Arts.

With indefatigable energy for numerous projects, Miss de Marcellus has collaborated with various famous artists. She was co-creator, with the Swedish composer and conductor Ulf Bjorlin, of the symphonic narrative The Snow Queen, based on the Hans Andersen children’s classic. She also created an imaginative narrative version of Prokofiev’s Lt Kije Suite at the request of Maestro Neeme Järvi of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Among her piano students she numbers the noted American composer Richard Danielpour.

For twelve years Juliette co-produced a series of chamber music concerts at Sotheby’s in London with the virtuoso pianist Alan Kogosowski. This series, known as Schubertiades at Sotheby’s, became a celebrated feature of London’s musical life. Recently she collaborated with Kogosowski on the narrative script of his six-part television series Chopin, A Life to Remember, which has been broadcast in America and sells internationally on DVD.

Juliette’s summers are habitually spent as a speaker on cruise ships, including the Greek islands, last year a river cruise on the Danube from Budapest to Vienna and Prague, and most recently a riverboat cruise down the Nile (on the same boat used in the upcoming remake of Death on the Nile).

Juliette is the daughter of the late Count and Countess Henri de Marcellus, who came to the United States prior to World War II, and to Palm Beach in 1946. After high school years at the Palm Beach Day School, she completed her studies as a pianist at the Guildhall School of Music in London and at Oxford where she was a student of the late Leonie Gombrich, a student and associate of the great Leopold Godowsky. She also studied voice privately.

Recently Juliette published a book telling the story of her parents’ extraordinary lives. The book, entitled Rose & Henri - For richer, For poorer, has proved popular with all those interested in European and American family life in the first half of the twentieth century, and especially those whose families lived through the two world wars and the Great Depression. Her book vividly describes the sights and events of the early 20th century in England and France, and the United States during the interwar and post-war years.

In 2008, three decades after her father’s death, after much sorting, compilation and translation, Ms de Marcellus edited and oversaw the publication of her father’s unique and invaluable magnum opus, The Atlas of Man, which superimposes the migrations of man on the dramatic changes in Earth’s climate through the four great climatic ages over the past 900,000 years. This work, which has been universally acclaimed by museums, universities and those concerned with climate change, was published under the auspices of the Vollmer Educational Foundation.

Both books, Rose and Henri and The Atlas of Man, are currently available on Amazon.